I couldn't pay because I was waiting for the money promised by the dev. Simple.
If dev ran away, I will pay him with my PERSONAL money. But dev is still trying to keep his promise.
If you are able to pay him with your
PERSONAL money then you ought to do so. Considering that you're saying you would pay jacee regardless, why wait?
Given that you have enough faith to believe that the dev will cover the design costs, you thereby be able to pay jacee without a doubt in your mind that you will be sufficiently compensated after the fact.
He was also being tagged handling the telegram channel of ETHL (Ethereum LImited) project that for now the team had dissappeared and even him as the telegram admin for ETHL. There were few of them that has gone mad at the project for they had been scammed and sad part they could not trace the team but there is a name that has appeared on tracing the team which one was called as Mark Lester Miranda on his facebook account.